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The president of the Community of Murcia, Ramón Luis Valcárcel, laid the foundation stone today Alzheimur Center, which will become a national benchmark for research and direct care to patients with Alzheimer's disease.

Valcárcel, accompanied by the Minister of Health, María Ángeles Palacios, highlighted during this event the importance of these new facilities to combat this disease, and more specifically, "in the field of research, creating a brain bank as a fundamental tool that will allow important advances in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative diseases. "

He also said that "we need greater involvement of society as a whole" to disseminate advances in the diagnosis and treatment of this disease, because "detailed information on the evolution of this disease is the first step to the patient is well cared for and have the best possible quality of life. "

In this regard, the Minister of Health noted that "we still know very little about the causes of Alzheimer's Disease," and moved that "according to expert estimates, in 2015 could have up to 16,000 Alzheimer patients in the Region Murcia, compared to 10,000 who have at the moment. "

Alzheimer's is today the fourth leading cause of death in industrialized countries.

The new center Alzheimur Foundation, which has a budget of over seven million euros, will be located in the hamlet of El Esparragal Murcia, occupy an area of over seven thousand meters built and will be finished within 18 months.

The building will house a diagnostic unit, a training, a day center of one hundred men and the research center said.

These units also provide an area dedicated to the training of medical personnel and those caring for the sick, since, according to the minister of Health said, "the preparation of caregivers in this type of disease not only improves the quality of life may be, but also those who care for him and his entire environment. "

Alzehimur Foundation, responsible for managing the center, was born with a vocation for demanding quality standards in all their actions, and example is the signing of the agreement with the Fundación Reina Sofia which comprises the commitment, etc. aspects, to promote the exchange of knowledge about this disease and its spread.

Source: CARM